birds

I’m excited to share my new surface pattern collection, Into The Wood. It’s a new direction and focus for me, steering myself away from editorial illustrations to my first love of patterns. Ideally, I will begin to license these designs and as my collections grow, I may consider moving all patterns to a new website.

This is a rough idea I have for a new pattern, based around pencil drawings of various species of Tits. I think it needs another element added to it, and I want to try it in colour too, which means re-drawing. I really want to get some of my patterns made into wrapping paper as well. I have seen some amazing designs by nineteenseventythree and want to do my own. If anyone has any tips on how to achieve this please let me know!

Finished! Finally! This is my Red Kite illustration. I am so pleased with the final result, and am really enjoying the processes I am going through at the moment to get to these stages. Red Kite will be available to buy as a print, in my Etsy shop!

I have been tweaking and changing my birds and finally came up with this idea. Clockwise from the top right corner: Magpie, Dunnock, Wren, and Blackbird. It will be printed as an A3 print available in my Etsy shop soon

A littlewren for your Monday delight. Wrens are probably my favourite birds, and I am lucky enough to have a few that visit the garden here in West London. Even last night I watched two flitting about the fig tree (which is lit with lights, so it was rather beautiful) having what appeared to be a fight!